3 hours ago, robert young said:

There are interesting discussions among seasoned GA pilots about the usefulness of Vx and Vy. Certainly a lot of comments from real Bonanza Turbo pilots is that v values are not very helpful and possibly dangerous in some circumstances. 1) Because although efficient initial climb buys you altitude, it does not buy you speed - yet healthy speed also buys you altitude indirectly and also buys you more time to sort failures out; you have to decide which is safer at a given airfield (hazards, rising ground, masts etc etc.) with a high performance aircraft like the Bonanza Turbo,  and 2) it might pay to get away fast and with a more shallow climb. A 120-130 knot climb out seems a good compromise. If you are stuck at a v speed and climbing well but slow, an engine failure is not easy to manage.

I think the tide is turning on v speeds after take off. The growing consensus is that flexibility and circumstances are more important than slavishly sticking to conventional climb out speeds.

Knowing Bonanza owners (disregarding required climb gradient for obstacle clearance) it is all about keeping engine happy in climb. Those folks who  basically worship their engines! Any unnecessarily  stress make them very unhappy! 

Once I was doing BFR and decided to take controls in initiate go around. Right after I pushed throttle to firewall the owner literally slapped my hand and creamed "gentle gentle not like that!" LOL

19 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

I have also seen that although V4 is better for hand flying, V3 actually flies a tighter autopilot controlled RNAV approach.

V4 seems a bit loose in tracking the magenta line, especially with a light crosswind.. and can actually lose the track altogether. Something I have seen earlier in MSFS history, but not recently.

Hopefully this can be adjusted..

I think Bert is right. I took this pic of my departure procedure in LEAL with V4 and G100Nxi. I corrected it going to HDG mode. After that it behave OK though

G36 Turbo V4 SU6 in Alicante Spain

2 hours ago, Rimshot said:

Upon startup, when turning on the batteries and the alternators and thus the PFD I do not see engine information. Am I missing something? Or is this something WT has not implemented yet? Engine information is shown on the PFD of the default G1000.

Yes, the engine data is displayed on the MFD when using the WT NXi version.  I'm guessing this is how the RW unit is set up due to WT's demonstrated expertise, but I would have to check out an actual NXi manual to be sure (my RW flying days were all on steam gauge).

To compensate for this, I activate the MFD early so I can check fuel levels prior to and engine info right after start-up.

Definitely need to keep an eye on those fuel gauges and don't forget to switch fuel tanks, especially if you fly with the default fuel loadout.

Ask me how I know...

I start to use Siri at TOC which is my first switch over… I’d rather have B!$ching Betty… but this isn’t a Mentor 😉

5 hours ago, skully said:

Definitely need to keep an eye on those fuel gauges and don't forget to switch fuel tanks, especially if you fly with the default fuel loadout.

Ask me how I know...

Agree!  I have created my own default for passengers and baggage in the "flight_model.cfg" file but have not found where the default fuel load is set at 50%.  I routinely move the fuel loaded slider to 70% or 80% depending on the length of my flight.

News:

I have a hotfix for the autopilot issues with the Bonanza Turbo V4. It is being tested now and I hope the news will be good. If so I will upload it to Github and later to Nexus.

2 minutes ago, robert young said:

News:

I have a hotfix for the autopilot issues with the Bonanza Turbo V4. It is being tested now and I hope the news will be good. If so I will upload it to Github and later to Nexus.

Thank you!!!!

And, from Colorado,  a very happy good night  Rob.

16 hours ago, robert young said:

Thank you! Not absolutely sure as my primary goal was to get the Bonanza compatible with SU6. I haven't looked at the  NXiengine details to be honest. I think others far more familiar with NXi might chime in. Please don't forget that NXi is in early beta.

Thanks Robert, I do realize it's an early beta, but as the engine indication system is on the PFD in the default G1000 during startup, and moves to the MFD when switching on the MFD I figured this would also be default functionality for the more advanced WT G1000 NXi as well. Then again I have no clue how development of an advanced gauge works and for all I know WT has started from scratch.

14 hours ago, RandallR said:

Yes, the engine data is displayed on the MFD when using the WT NXi version.  I'm guessing this is how the RW unit is set up due to WT's demonstrated expertise, but I would have to check out an actual NXi manual to be sure (my RW flying days were all on steam gauge).

To compensate for this, I activate the MFD early so I can check fuel levels prior to and engine info right after start-up.

Well, I've checked a few startup procedures with G1000 equiped aircraft. One is in the link below:

As you can see the engine indication system (EIS) is displayed on the PFD. After the engine is started and the avionics switch is turned on the MFD starts and the EIS moves from PFD to MFD. This is how it works on the default MSFS G1000, but not on the WT G1000 NXi. The above startup procedure is a normal G1000 though, so maybe functionality has changed with the NXi. I'm a bit reluctant to ask the WT team as they have clearly stated on their website they know what they are doing and what functions they have and have not implemented.

If the PFD loses communication with the MFD, it goes into reversionary mode, which causes the engine instruments to be displayed in the PFD as shown immediately above. If memory serves correctly, this mode can also be activated manually, perhaps by pressing the red button (labelled DISPLAY BACKUP) at the bottom of that middle stack of audio control buttons. I guess the MFD is, among other things, controlled separately by the avionics switch, while the PFD is controlled directly by the master battery switches.

Presumably, this detailed functionality will be provided in some future version of the NXi. The red button is active (the cursor changes to the hand when hovered over it), and the button press itself is animated. It's just not functional.

Thanks for the amazing turbo G36, Robert.

13 hours ago, fppilot said:

Agree!  I have created my own default for passengers and baggage in the "flight_model.cfg" file but have not found where the default fuel load is set at 50%.  I routinely move the fuel loaded slider to 70% or 80% depending on the length of my flight.

Hello FP, You can set your fuel and passenger loadout on the screen where select your aircraft and its liveries etc.

Hi Skully: I reckon he already knows that: - "I routinely move the fuel loaded slider to 70% or 80% depending on the length of my flight."

What Frank is asking is  " Where (in the file system) is the config file that contains the default load configurations for particular aircraft".
The Asobo file system is deep and so many of our older flightsim files have always been in the same spots, with the same (logical) file names, for years: Asobo has changed all of that - and been secretive about it.   

Edited November 3, 20214 yr by Paul J

Yes sir Paul, I just caught that.

👍  It's ok Skully - I did exactly the same thing five days ago with another post. (duh!)